Shattering Time [5] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Amy's Choice

"Yeah, yeah, okay and you came to our cottage." Amy nodded while the Doctor frowned swallowing hard.

"How can we have the same dream? It doesn't make any sense. "

"And you had a 'sort of nightmare about us.' What happened to us in the nightmare?"

"It was a bit similar, in some aspects." He shrugged.

"Sweetheart..." the Stone looked at him wanting the truth.

"Which aspects?" Rory frowned.

"Well, all of them."

"You had the same dream."

"Basically."

"You said it was a nightmare."

"Sort of nightmare. But did I say nightmare? No, more of a really good... mare." He muttered. "Look, it doesn't matter. We all had some kind of psychic episode. We probably jumped a time track or something. Forget it. We're back to reality now."

"It wouldn't be the first time something like this happened to me." The Stone remarked before frowning knowing something was wrong but not being entirely sure what.

"Doctor? If we're back to reality, how come I can still hear birds?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, the same birds." Rory nodded in agreement hearing it too. "The same ones we heard in the-"

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Leadworth

"Dream," Rory muttered before snapping his head up off the Doctors shoulder. "Sorry. Nodded off. Stupid. God, I must be overdoing it." He winced. "I was dreaming we were back on the TARDIS."

The Doctor checked his braces while the Stone poked her stomach curiously before standing up with the Doctor and walked away from the bench.

"You both had the same dream, didn't you?"

"Weren't we just saying the same thing?" Amy asked.

"But we thought this was the dream, didn't we?" He muttered to Amy while the Time Lords kept quiet observing the surroundings.

"I think so. Why do dreams have to fade so quickly?"

"Stone, what is going on?"

"Is this because of you two?" Amy looked at the confused Time Lords. "Is this some Time Lordy thing because you've shown up again?"

"Listen to me. Trust nothing." The Doctor said tightly holding the Stone's hand. "From now on, trust nothing you see, hear or feel."

"But we're awake now."

"Yeah. You thought you were awake on the TARDIS, too."

"But we're home."

"Yeah, you're home." The Stone nodded. "But you're also dreaming."

"Trouble is, Rory, Amy, which is which? Are we flashing forwards or backwards? Hold on tight." He muttered squeezing the Stone's hand. "This is going be a tricky one."

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TARDIS

"Oh, this is bad. I don't like this." The Doctor grumbled before kicking the TARDIS. "Argh." He groaned squeezing his eyes shut in the pain. "Never use force. You just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case, always use force."